5. If you don't believe me re above, google Airtours incident Manchester. 90 seconds to destroy a perfectly good BAC 111
It was a 737-200 and given the explosive disintegration of the engine combustion chamber, "perfectly good" isn't a particularly apt desciption of it!
Carry a large clear plastic bac (ziplock perfect). If smoke and fire happen, shove it over your head. it'll give you about a minute of O2 and it will prevent the plastic in the fumes sealing your eyelids up.
It isn't a smoke hood, nor is it really a good idea. It doesn't contain any more Oxygen than the ambient air does when you put it over your head. It will (assuming any kind of seal actually exists) quickly start to suffocate you, and bcome hot and dirty. Smoke rises, and that includes into inverted plastic bags. Particulates are likely to be attracted to plastic bags, thereby quickly disorientating the hapless wearer. Best advice would be to cover your nose and mouth with a cloth or handkerchief and get down low below the smoke, which will obscure visibility from the roofline downwards. That is why escape lighting is placed on the floor.
Perhaps
you should listen to the cabin crew a bit more!
